Archive for November, 2008

26
Nov

6am conversation

(Tap tap tap on my back as I slumber)

Lauren:  Daddy?

Me:  snaarkle. cough. cough.  as;lfhaweuopftfffftt.  Yeah baby?

Her:  Can I get in?  (our bed)

Me:  Sure honey.

Her:  With my pants off? (She doesn’t like underpants and sleeps only in a pajama top).

Me:  No honey.

Her:  Can we go downstairs then?

Me:  No honey.

Her:  Can I get in then?

Me:  Sure honey.

Her:  With no pants on?

Me:  Sure baby.

Her:  (sound of her cute little cow print pajama pants hitting the floor and then her climbing over me at the bottom of the bed, followed by the rustling of her getting under the covers, getting situated, etc., then silence for five seconds).

Her:  Daddy?

Me:  (sighing) Yeah baby?

Her:  Can we turn on the tv?

Me:  No honey.  We’re trying to sleep.

Her:  Can we go downstairs then?

Me:  No honey.  We’re sleeping.

Then, since Patrick has learned that we share a wall with his room, he begins beating the wall behind his crib.

Me:  Honey, I guess it’s time to get up then.

GBD:  Guess so…

Us:  (shuffling into Patrick’s room, and as we’re getting him out of the crib comes…)

Fia:  MOMMY!!! DADDY!!!! I AWAKE!!!

And that’s the first ten minutes of my day.

26
Nov

A meme from the Coal Miner’s Granddaughter

Accent -I have none.  I am region-neutral.  Although I can pick up accents if I stay places for more than a week.  Like Montreal, Boston, Chicago, Minnesota, etc.  I return home with a thick accent from whence I came.

Breakfast - Best.  Meal.  Ever.  Waffle House.  Egg McMuffins.  Chick Fil A biscuits with egg and cheese.  Leftover pizza.  Scrambled eggs and chopped potatoes with diced leftover ribeye.  I just love to eat in the morning.  (That’s what she said).

Chore I Don’t Care For -All of them?  Cleaning the garage or bathrooms is the worst.

Dog or Cat - Neither, but I’d have a dog.  I would also have a cat.  Buried in my backyard.

Essential Electronics - iPod.  Laptop.  Blackberry.  Aircard (while traveling).  Golf cart.

Favorite Perfume - None.  Perfume and cologne should be outlawed and its use in the workplace a felony.

Gold or Silver -Silver is trendy, but I like it for my cock ring.  Gold is better for outerwear.

Handbag - No.  Murse?  Maybe.

Insomnia -Occasionally.  Tylenol PM is great for that though.  Come to think of it, so is Lortab.

Job Title -IT Support Analyst

Kids - 3.  No more.  I’m begging you.

Living Arrangements -Married.  3 kids.  Living in a 4br, 3.5 bath house that looks like a Goodwill store and a Kay-bee toys collided and blew up all over the place.

Most Admirable Trait - I am very generous as a lover.  And I’m tall.  I think if you asked my wife, she’d focus on the latter.

Naughtiest Childhood Behavior -I liked fire.  A lot.

Overnight Hospital Stays - Adenoids removed at 5 or 6, cardiac catheterization 3 years and 22 days ago, and a robotic bypass of my left anterior decending artery 3 years and 16 days ago.

Phobias - Using a public restroom to do number two and having one of those open-fronted seats that breaks and as it slides you off the side it acts like a dull pair of scissors with the side of the toilet, severing my penis in the process.

And clowns.

Quote - "If you ever questioned whether or not I loved you, know that I didn’t name you Floyd."  My dad.

Reason to smile -Snuggling with my kids in their soft soft winter pajamas.

Siblings -1.  Sort of.  My dad and stepmom adopted a brand new white baby the Thanksgiving weekend of my freshman year in college.  So I have a half step-brother or a step-half brother and I’ve never lived in the same house with him.  Who am I kidding?  1.  The answer is 1.

Time I wake up - 6am.  Unless one of the kids gets up at 4am like yesterday.  GAH!!

Unusual Talent or Skill - I can whistle using any combination of two fingers on either hand.  Pinky-thumb, left ring-right thumb, two thumbs, index-pinky, I can do it all.

Oh, and I can spin things on my fingers.  If it’s flat and has a consistent density (like a book, a plate, a huge throw pillow, a three foot ovale serving tray), I can spin in, as well as throw it high in the air and catch it.  And people thought I got nothing out of my days as a waiter and bartender.

Vegetable I Refuse to Eat -Nearly all of them, but I’ll list my top five hated veggies.

1) Rutabega - I hate them so much I refuse to check if I spelled it right.  It’s the bastard child of the turnip and poo flung by monkeys at the zoo.  My dad would slice them paper thin, put a little butter in the pan and microwave them, making the whole house smell like shit.

2) Broccoli - Walk outside, pick up a small tree, like a pine sappling.  soak it overnight in urine and then eat the bushy top part.  That’s broccoli.  Any food that someone tries talking you into liking by saying "It’s great with cheese on it" sucks ass.  A lot.

3) Asparagus - Just like broccoli, except instead of a pine tree it’s a whole corn plant, but without the god damned corn.  Awful.  The same arguement about cheese applies.  Oh, and as a bonus, this awful plant makes your urine nearly radioactive and so stinky that people outside your house can smell it.

4) squash (and anything else from that family) - It’s all bad.  The inside isn’t done, their mealy in texture and just taste like shit.  Blech.  Awful.  and bad in anything it’s added to as well.

5) Tomato - Shut up.  I know it’s "technically" a fruit.  Shut up.  You know it’s a vegetable.  No sane person has tomato juice alone (like you would cranberry or orange or apple juice).  To make people drink the juice, you have to add appeal by adding vodka.  If they make it into a soup or slice it for sandwhiches or put it on a salad it’s a vegetabe.  And it sucks.

Now that I think about it, It’s possible that the tomato is my LEAST favorite veggie.  The texture’s terrible, it’s got larvae like shit in the middle, it stains anything it touches, and it burns any slight cut you might have on your hands.  Plus, everyone is so shocked when you say you hate tomatoes that they insist on "have you tried it with ___?" or "You don’t even like tomatoes on ____??" or "Gosh, you should try them again.  Your taste buds change as you age."  Shut up.  I’m forty years old.  I have a wife, three kids, a non-subprime mortgage and I’ve had a bypass.  I know what I like and what I don’t like, and I don’t like tomatoes.

Worst Habit - Other than being incredibly awesome and too generous as a lover?  Either not putting my clothes in the hamper or letting my truck look like a pig sty.

X-Rays -I’ve had many.  Top to bottom.  Teeth, head, ankles, chest, abdomen, lungs (many times), wrists.

Yummy Stuff -Zaxby’s.  Totinos Pizza.  35 degree beer.  Ribeyes cooked on the big green egg.  Leg of lamb (Our Thanksgiving main course this year).

Zoo Animal I Like Most -Poo flingin’ monkeys.  Or the elephants.  Their penises touch the ground when they pee, so I feel a kinship with them.

25
Nov

Things I am thankful to know (or not thankful to know)

In honor of Thanksgiving, today I will give you a list of things I’m thankful to know.

  1. Getting up at 4am with two of your three kids and being up for the day produces a tired that is similar to "Holy shit! We have a four week old baby!" tired.
  2. There are few feelings more annoying than getting off the highway half a mile from your office and realizing you’ve left your backpack (containing your laptop) at home.
  3. Realizing that this wouldn’t have happened if you had let your three year old do the morning inventory.  "Daddy…you got you keys?  You got you phone?  You got you packpack?  You got you ipod?"
  4. If you are dressed for work at 5am, that’s two more hours of opportunity a giant sticky booger has a chance to jump from one of your kids’ noses (or fingers) and on to your shirt.
  5. Leaning over to kiss your oldest child goodbye and having her sneeze at the second you make contact is more than a little disconcerting.  Actually the fact that I didn’t return the favor by vomiting on her was a testament to my love for her. I think.
  6. The amount of time wasted in the workplace on Facebook is mind-boggling.  It’s also WAY worse than blogging.

That’s all for now.  I’m about to curl up in the server room for a nap.  Wake me when it’s time to go lunch at the elementary school.

Not like that you jackass.  I’m having lunch with my daughter.  Sheesh.

21
Nov

Says who?

I will be intentionally vague and deceptive in this post and will use all of the skills I learned while training at "The Farm" with the other super secret agents of our time to protect identities but still tell the story.

I’ve known "Glenn" for a long time.  At times we’ve been very close and shared good times.  At other times, we have gone without speaking for extended periods thanks to my almost subservient position compared to him.

The most recent of these episodes has been pretty long even by our standards.  But that’s fine.

You see, there are two things I don’t tolerate well:

1) Hypocrites

2) Two-faced people

I know that can be read as the same thing sometimes, but they aren’t the same.
Glenn is always quick to say just the right thing so everyone thinks he’s a super, salt of the earth, wise beyond his years guy.  Only he’s not.  When they’re not looking he’s mean, selfish, and has no problem putting people in terrible positions to avoid accepting responsibility or blame for his own actions. Heck, he’s even been known to lie to people specifically to cause a problem where there isn’t one.

And after our last conversation which ended with him saying "If you are not going to care, then don’t care forever,"  I meant it.

Super.  Sounds like a great deal to me.

And last night, for the second time, Glenn decided to talk to me.  Only I didn’t want to talk to him.  So I waved him off and said nothing.  He persisted.  You see, he doesn’t want to face this time of year having to explain why we’re not buddies.  It wouldn’t look great for him because I’m a fun guy and people generally like me.  Given our history, they may infer that it was related to something Glenn did to me or someone close to me, and that would not make Glenn look great in other people’s eyes, which is and always has been very important to him.

Glenn then pushed on, saying that I could do better than that in responding to his greeting.

I was walking away, but I turned around and said "you know what?  Not caring forever has been great.  I will continue to not care.  And you don’t get to decide when I will or won’t start caring again."

He replied in some condescending manner and question my resolve, to which I replied "I don’t care.  Why don’t you mind your own business?  Or go fuck yourself.  Either one is fine with me."

Seriously, how many times does someone get to humiliate me and pick at me and try to embarrass me in front of other people before they get the point. And I’m not talking about good-natured ribbing.  I’m talking about personal and mean shit that I wouldn’t do to people.

So it’s time to try something different.  Maybe this will help.

Glenn, I have no interest in talking to you.  I hope the entire world reads this.  You are an ass.  You’re not nice when no one’s looking.  But I know.  And others do too.  You’re lucky that one person you’ve wronged twice is WAY more forgiving than me.  Otherwise, you’d be worrying about something more than me not caring.

Now do me a favor.  Don’t look at me.  Don’t talk to me.  And maybe just leave me the hell alone.  I already know "the real Glenn," and I don’t want to anymore.

19
Nov

You know what I meant, dammit.

One clarification about yesterday’s post regarding the current ponzi scheme that is the American Auto industry in general and the big 3 specifically.
I don’t want them to go out of business.  That doesn’t help anyone.  I want them to file for bankruptcy.  That way, all the union contracts get renegotiated and / or voided outright, and someone from outside of the current regimes that run these dinosaurs gets to come in and demand that the companies modify their current business model and how they do business to better appeal to the car driving public.

THAT is the only way I’m in favor of any "bailout" for the auto industry.  Handing 30 BILLION DOLLARS to the dumbasses that put the automakers in the position they’re in right now is like handing a junkie more cash instead of taking them by the hand to rehab.

You see, the problem is that these companies don’t learn from their mistakes.  They never have.  And they never will as long as we, the taxpaying public, continue to forgive them nearly a half century of egregious errors and mismanagement.




 

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